Christians saying that "Christianity doesn't include speaking in tongues" don't murder those who disagree.
They used to, just a few hundred years ago or so. It was only with the Enlightenment, aka the Age of Reason, and its turn towards secularism, where this stuff stopped. But there's plenty of Republicans who would just love to go back to having a theocracy, and they're exactly the kind of people who would love to burn "heretics" at the stake.
Let me rephrase: And now that governments are adopting policies that "every child should learn to code", how do you do your programming homework?
Simple: on a tablet.
Surely someone can come up with some super-simplified programming environment for tablets, much like LOGO from the 70s/80s. The code would just run in a sandbox, and wouldn't do a whole lot, but for a teaching tool for children, it should be sufficient.
5th graders don't need a full-blown programming environment with hardware access. When I was young, we got along just fine with Apple ][ computers and learning BASIC to do some very primitive graphics programming. It'd be easy to make something like that for a modern tablet computer.
The problem I see with this Kuiper Belt idea is: why would anyone want to live out there to begin with? If it's raw materials, surely we can get everything we want much closer to the Earth, on the Moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars, in the asteroid belt, or at worse in the many, many moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Why mess around with a bunch of very small and very remote worlds, unless you've exhausted all those (which means you've probably built something resembling a Dyson Swarm)? Don't forget, the Kuiper Belt is so far out there's very little sunlight, so you have to get all your power from nuclear fusion. Solar panels don't work out there.
If you have the tech to make a sustainable Kuiper Belt colony, then why bother? You might as well just build a generation ship and head for Alpha Centauri.
Settlement beyond Mars in this solar system is tricky. The remaining planets are all gas giants
You're forgetting countless moons. Why do you care so much that an orb is orbiting the Sun rather than some gas giant? Jupiter and Saturn both have lots of solid, rocky moons.
The **real** problems with settlement beyond Mars are 1) temperature (and sunlight), and 2) gravity. There's lots of moons, including Titan, around Jupiter and Saturn, but they're all pretty small, smaller than Mars. Mars is already tiny, with only 1/3g gravity. These moons are no bigger than our own, with its puny 1/6g gravity. It's likely that long-term living at low-gravity is bad for human health. But maybe they can come up with a medical way of fixing that. The other problem is sunlight: there's a lot less of it out that far, so it's really cold. That's not so easy to fix; you can't get much power by solar panels, so you'd need lots of nuclear plants to keep your settlements warm.
The way I see it, Mars is at the very edge of habitability for us: it's too small, and too cold. But maybe it has mineral resources that'll make it worth it. The Moon would be a decent place for a habitat, mainly because of its very close proximity (which provides for easy and frequent crew rotations, unlike Mars). It might be possible to have cloud cities on Venus with giant dirigibles, since the atmosphere there is so think and the temperature and pressure are very Earth-like at higher altitudes, though getting any equipment to work reliably on the surface is another matter. But if we want places for humans to actually live comfortably, the best option isn't any celestial body at all, but rather some kind of space station. We can generate our own gravity with rotation, and these stations can be kept situated near the Earth, perhaps in Lagrangian points.
That's all fine and well, but why exactly do you need a *law* to force this on everyone? If you don't want to try to learn any Greek food names, then don't eat at a Greek restaurant; it's pretty simple. It's not like you even need to learn the Greek language; the server probably doesn't speak it either. At the last Greek restaurant I went to, the server couldn't even pronounce "gyro" correctly. But at least they weren't required to make up some stupid English name for a Greek dish that's had a Greek name for centuries, so it was easy for me to walk in and get what I wanted.
The obvious conclusion here is that the law is *stupid*. Repeal the law and let people use whatever language they want. We don't have that problem here in the US; there's plenty of areas where all the shops have their signage in, and do business in, Spanish, because that's what their customers want.
Yes but not in the false dichotomy you're presenting. We want them to stop their behavior and then live peacefully with them. However unrealistic this goal is, why is it not laudable to at least want that as a preference even if it is unlikely? If we can get them to stop, maybe prosecute the guilty, and then work to establish human rights in the region why would you NOT want to live at peace with them?
Because it's completely impossible. They don't want peace. They're a doomsday cult; their goal is to either establish a Caliphate (which means control and domination by them), or to bring about the end of the world as prophesied in the Quran. Peace is the last thing they want, unless perhaps you'd like to just voluntarily give them control over everything and just do whatever they want.
Your statement can only be taken to conclude that you want continued conflict with them.
You have two choices: either do whatever you can to eradicate them, OR pursue a strict policy of containment. There can be no peace with a group like that (unless you consider containment and isolation "peace").
If that is what your intent is then you're an idiot.
If you think you can have peaceful relations with ISIS, you're a complete moron.
There is no way to "kill them all" in a realistic manner.
Sure there is: you flatten all their cities with fuel-air bombs. Of course, no one wants to do that because it's genocide, so we're stuck with the current state of affairs. However, if ISIS goes too far, I do think that's *exactly* what's going to happen. My money's on Russia: they're going to piss off Russia somehow in a big way, and Russia is simply going to drop MOABs on them, civilian casualties be damned. What happens after that I really don't know. People like you say it'll drive recruitment, but it's pretty hard to recruit people when your entire organization has been obliterated, so at best it could end up creating a new version of ISIS, which could be sorta like how attacking Al Qaeda, plus the power vacuum in Iraq, ended up spawning ISIS.
So, yes, we want to live peacefully with these people so long as they stop their current behavior
They're not going to stop. That's the problem. That's like asking all Americans to willingly join Wahhabist Islam. You're dealing with a suicidal death cult that's reached a very large scale, and you're not going to convince them to abandon their ideology.
If a real "fountain of youth" drug were developed, unless it were sold fairly cheaply (or at least at a reasonable cost), it would probably be copied. The only reason we have a limited supply right now of various drugs is because of patent law. That doesn't keep pharma companies in places like India from manufacturing their own, they just ignore US IP laws. And we don't get that stuff over here because it isn't lucrative to import some, say, anti-AIDS drug and sell it on the black market here. There's lots of drugs which *are* lucrative to import, and the authorities are mostly helpless in preventing that, which is why the Mexican cartels are so profitable.
So what we'd see is a pairing between offshore pharma companies and established criminal cartels.
Firstly, race should be off topic for this web site.
No, it shouldn't, because the site's owners don't want it that way.
Absolutely **everything** is on-topic for this web site. Anything. Try posting a message about anything at all, no matter how offensive. It will not be deleted, it can only be moderated down. Now, try posting that same message over and over, **hundreds** or even **thousands** of times in the same article. Again, nothing will be done to stop this spam. APK has been spamming the hell out of this site, with an obvious neurological disorder, but of course nothing is done about it. There's some other racist here that keeps posting things about n******s in every single topic.
Basically, this all shows what happens when you have too much democratization. It only takes a few loonies to ruin something, especially when they have the power of automated tools (computers) which can greatly amplify their insane writings by repeatedly posting them over and over. Pretty soon, everyone else gets sick of it and goes somewhere else where there's more moderation.
They're not evil. They think they're doing the right thing. Their religion says so.
Then, kill or imprison them to at least stop their evil actions.
They have their own de-facto country now, and an army, so imprisoning them isn't that easy.
Finally, call out their beliefs that they use to justify their evil actions.
You can "call them out" all you want, but the people in that region agree with those beliefs. It's all part-and-parcel of their religion. And all the people saying "Islam doesn't condone violence" are just like Christians saying that "Christianity doesn't include speaking in tongues", when there are significant sects which believe exactly that, or saying "Christians don't believe God loves rich people more" when again there's significant sects that believe exactly that (see Prosperity Doctrine). Just because *your* sect of a religion doesn't believe something doesn't mean your beliefs represent the entire religion.
Pretending they should be understood as people who 'think they are working for a good cause' is dangerous.
It's not pretending, it's real. These people DO think they're working for a good cause. Their religion and their scriptures say they are. This is the whole problem with religion, especially with extremely barbaric ones whose holy books openly advocate this stuff. You can't use advanced Western ethics to argue against it, because religion requires blind adherence to doctrine.
As a human race, one thing we have all mostly agree upon is that slavery is wrong, rape is wrong, cruel and unusual punishment is wrong and using violence to expand your territory is wrong to name a few things that the general world has rejected.
No, this is all incorrect. *You* may think all these things are wrong, but not that long ago plenty of people here in the West thought they were just fine. And there's still lots of people in the world who think some of these things (if not all of them) are just fine and dandy.
Here in the US, a large portion of the population thought slavery was just fine as recently as 150 years ago. Even today, there's still lots of Americans who think slavery is just fine: you can see them flying Confederate flags on their pickups.
A large fraction of men think rape is fine, depending on circumstances. Something like 1/4 of all women in the US are raped or sexually assaulted at some point. This isn't being done by the same small group of men. And just look at how many Muslim men think it's OK to rape women if they dress too "provocatively". That mindset isn't limited to Muslims though; they're just more likely to be forthcoming with that opinion; you can find plenty of American men saying the same thing on web forums. I'd be surprised if a large fraction of the Slashdot crowd didn't believe in this; this place is chock full of ultra-conservative misogynists.
Most humans think using violence to expand territory is fine. Russia just did it within the last year, and Putin has wide popular support. China is doing the same even now. The US was doing it 100+ years ago. Back in the Middle Ages, the Europeans were constantly doing this.
Most humans think cruel and unusual punishment is fine. The Europeans in the Middle Ages burned people at the stake constantly, along with many other cruel punishments. Even today, here in the US we keep people in prison for years and decades; a few hundred years ago, *that* was considered cruel and unusual, which is why they generally didn't have any prisons (only jails, for people awaiting trial). Keeping someone in prison, esp. in solitary confinement, usually winds up giving them mental problems or turning them insane. Somehow back in the Colonial days when they branded people or tossed fruit at them in the stockades, they recognized this and so didn't have any prisons, only swift punishments.
At least when the USA, etc.. has done an invasion, they present justification to the rest of the world.
I'm sure ISIS has their own justification too. It's basically just Sharia Law and "the Quran says so", but that's good enough for the people in that part of the world. That's the kind of mentality people from there have. It's not very different from the mentality that people had in the Middle Ages when people were burned at the stake for believing in the "wrong" kind of Christianity.
If the mob rule vilifies another group and calling them evil is the only acceptable answer this just foments more conflict
How is someone *not* evil when they regularly saw off peoples' heads?
Any one who is advocating peace IMO should not be ridiculed and shamed.
You want to try to live peacefully with a group that burns people at the stake and beheads them regularly? If you want to advocate strict separatism and quarantining because getting involved in that region is unlikely to work out well, that's a reasonable-sounding position, but saying "let's make peace" with people this barbaric is just dumb.
Is anyone trying to follow the money? Who is supplying and training these folks? Who is providing them with documentation? The USA has supposedly been engaging them for over a year, and yet there's been little progress to show for it. Russia steps in and over a weekend the organization is reportedly in chaos and falling apart. WTF?!
Now this does raise a good point, though I have to call for "citation needed" on the bit about ISIS being "in chaos and falling apart"; I haven't read that at all. All Russia's done is dropped some bombs, and even then it looks like they bombed the wrong guys, they bombed some other anti-Assad groups, not ISIS (since their only real concern is propping up Assad). The French probably did more with their small bombing of Raqa in the last day or two. But that again makes me wonder: if we knew where these training camps and recruitment centers were, why weren't they bombed long ago? Honestly this whole thing kinda stinks: this enemy has no aircraft, no real AAA that I've heard of, just a bunch of Toyota trucks and AK47s and probably some other infantry equipment. How hard can it be to weaken them to the point where the Kurds can completely eliminate them on the ground?
The components are all on the outside of the boards, so that doesn't really matter unless something happens to actually damage the PCB. And if that happens, it's generally not worth it to try to salvage the PCB anyway.
So the Quebecoi is worried about the culture being ruined by the Italians??? Or the Ethiopians (I'm sure their restaurants have the names of their dishes in Ethiopian)?
As English speaker you don't see any problem with this because everything else is in English. What harm could do a little menu in Italian when it is the Italian peoples that are forced to learn English for work.
If they emigrate to the US or UK, then of course they need to learn English for work. Why should it be any different?
If they're living in Italy, then no, they don't need to learn English to work. I'm quite sure Italians still generally speak Italian in Italy, just like French generally speak French in France.
None of these foreign culture threaten your English one. You opinion about Italian restaurant will change if you were forced to learn Italian for work or go on you dailies tasks. Do you see how stupid your position is?
No, I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
If I move to Italy, then I would expect to need to learn Italian to get along. "When in Rome..."
A sovereign state can decide what is the language of the land. If you want to do business there, you respect the law. Or you can go elsewhere.
Sure, and the rest of us have the right to laugh at your sovereign state's idiotic laws.
I'm sure that Italian restaurants in Germany have menus with the names of their dishes in Italian too. Only a really idiotic place would require ethnic restaurants to translate the very names of their dishes into the local language.
Also the experience of dinning in a ethnic restaurant is clean and good food, not having no idea of what you eating because you only pretending to understand what you ordered.
Are you so sheltered you've never been to an ethnic restaurant? They pretty much all have English descriptions of the dishes (in the US).
No company can force another company to spend money. They can try really hard, but the fact is, "I bought and own this, and I will use it till it doesn't work anymore" is a common mindset.
The corollary to that is that no customer can force a vendor to support an old product forever. They can try really hard, but the fact is, supporting obsolete stuff just isn't worth it most of the time. And they're definitely not going to do it for free.
They can still develop new OS's there is nothing stopping that, but there is no reason for an EOL, they should just charge for support.
How many customers are willing to pay $10 million per year per computer for support?
Continuing to support old OSes (which are highly complex products remember) isn't a trivial effort. At some point, the amount of money customers are willing to pay for continued support just isn't enough to pay for the extra organizational overhead needed to do that. Don't forget that there's a lot of institutional memory in stuff like this: long-time employees have all the requisite knowledge, and a lot of it doesn't get written down. You can't just hire a bunch of new employees and put them to work supporting some 25-year-old software product; they're going to be lost. And the old-timers are going to age out or go find new jobs, and where are you going to find fresh new employees who want to have on their resume, "supported Windows 3.1 for 3 years"? No one really wants that job.
No, everything is not in English, even here in the US. Go into any good Italian restaurant, and the menu will be filled with Italian terms and writing. Any intelligent diner is educated and smart enough to be able to pronounce these terms; it's not like you need to learn the whole language. Same for any Greek restaurant: all the food names are in Greek, like galactoboureko. At some restaurants, you'll even see stuff in Greek letters, though of course they also print the Latinized versions. Again, same for French restaurants: all the dishes have French names. Americans probably have more trouble pronouncing those than the Italian or Greek dishes, but that's ok, we still muddle our way through, and don't demand that the menus be made in all-English. Again, Mexican restaurants: the menus are in Spanish. Not even the Trump supporters complain about this; they know perfectly well what a taco or a burrito is, and don't need the name translated into some made-up English name.
Part of the experience of dining in a good ethnic restaurant is (hopefully) getting a relatively "authentic" dining experience, which includes the food as well as the names on the menu. If the Quebec government actually expects Greek, Russian, Ethiopian, or Italian restaurants to make up French names for foods that are native to those place, that just defies all reason.
The problem is that that approach you describe with VHDL doesn't actually work. The Army has all kinds of problems sourcing obsolete parts these days. If what you described actually worked, they'd just get someone to fab the chips for them.. But they don't, they source them from all kinds of weird little suppliers of NOS components, and frequently end up getting counterfeit stuff from China.
Moreover, there's a lot more to a chip design than the HDL code. You can't just give some foundry some HDL code and have them spit out an Intel processor.
If you want continuous support for electronics like this, you have to keep up with what's going on in the industry, and continuously upgrade your designs to use modern parts. There's no other way to do it, unless you have a really simple design that can be built with discrete circuits and doesn't need any ASICs. You could do much of your designs in Verilog and make your hardware FPGA-based, and then just upgrade to newer FPGAs over time, since porting Verilog code to newer FPGAs isn't that hard, but it's still not a simple solution requiring absolutely no redesign. There's just no such thing.
I think we need *more* APK spam. As it is, there's a lot of it and it's a big nuisance, but no one's doing anything to fix the problem.
We need to have so much APK spam that the site becomes completely unusable. That's the only way the idiotic management around here is finally going to step up and do something about the problem.
A lot of times, you have to completely burn something down before you can rebuild something better.
They could probably hold their company indefinitely just running windows XP,7 or 8
Corporations have to constantly grow, or they're considered "dying". MS isn't going to grow if they can't get customers to keep shelling out $$$ for new versions of the old software they're already using.
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Christians saying that "Christianity doesn't include speaking in tongues" don't murder those who disagree.
They used to, just a few hundred years ago or so. It was only with the Enlightenment, aka the Age of Reason, and its turn towards secularism, where this stuff stopped. But there's plenty of Republicans who would just love to go back to having a theocracy, and they're exactly the kind of people who would love to burn "heretics" at the stake.
Let me rephrase: And now that governments are adopting policies that "every child should learn to code", how do you do your programming homework?
Simple: on a tablet.
Surely someone can come up with some super-simplified programming environment for tablets, much like LOGO from the 70s/80s. The code would just run in a sandbox, and wouldn't do a whole lot, but for a teaching tool for children, it should be sufficient.
5th graders don't need a full-blown programming environment with hardware access. When I was young, we got along just fine with Apple ][ computers and learning BASIC to do some very primitive graphics programming. It'd be easy to make something like that for a modern tablet computer.
The problem I see with this Kuiper Belt idea is: why would anyone want to live out there to begin with? If it's raw materials, surely we can get everything we want much closer to the Earth, on the Moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars, in the asteroid belt, or at worse in the many, many moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Why mess around with a bunch of very small and very remote worlds, unless you've exhausted all those (which means you've probably built something resembling a Dyson Swarm)? Don't forget, the Kuiper Belt is so far out there's very little sunlight, so you have to get all your power from nuclear fusion. Solar panels don't work out there.
If you have the tech to make a sustainable Kuiper Belt colony, then why bother? You might as well just build a generation ship and head for Alpha Centauri.
Settlement beyond Mars in this solar system is tricky. The remaining planets are all gas giants
You're forgetting countless moons. Why do you care so much that an orb is orbiting the Sun rather than some gas giant? Jupiter and Saturn both have lots of solid, rocky moons.
The **real** problems with settlement beyond Mars are 1) temperature (and sunlight), and 2) gravity. There's lots of moons, including Titan, around Jupiter and Saturn, but they're all pretty small, smaller than Mars. Mars is already tiny, with only 1/3g gravity. These moons are no bigger than our own, with its puny 1/6g gravity. It's likely that long-term living at low-gravity is bad for human health. But maybe they can come up with a medical way of fixing that. The other problem is sunlight: there's a lot less of it out that far, so it's really cold. That's not so easy to fix; you can't get much power by solar panels, so you'd need lots of nuclear plants to keep your settlements warm.
The way I see it, Mars is at the very edge of habitability for us: it's too small, and too cold. But maybe it has mineral resources that'll make it worth it. The Moon would be a decent place for a habitat, mainly because of its very close proximity (which provides for easy and frequent crew rotations, unlike Mars). It might be possible to have cloud cities on Venus with giant dirigibles, since the atmosphere there is so think and the temperature and pressure are very Earth-like at higher altitudes, though getting any equipment to work reliably on the surface is another matter. But if we want places for humans to actually live comfortably, the best option isn't any celestial body at all, but rather some kind of space station. We can generate our own gravity with rotation, and these stations can be kept situated near the Earth, perhaps in Lagrangian points.
That's all fine and well, but why exactly do you need a *law* to force this on everyone? If you don't want to try to learn any Greek food names, then don't eat at a Greek restaurant; it's pretty simple. It's not like you even need to learn the Greek language; the server probably doesn't speak it either. At the last Greek restaurant I went to, the server couldn't even pronounce "gyro" correctly. But at least they weren't required to make up some stupid English name for a Greek dish that's had a Greek name for centuries, so it was easy for me to walk in and get what I wanted.
The obvious conclusion here is that the law is *stupid*. Repeal the law and let people use whatever language they want. We don't have that problem here in the US; there's plenty of areas where all the shops have their signage in, and do business in, Spanish, because that's what their customers want.
Yes but not in the false dichotomy you're presenting. We want them to stop their behavior and then live peacefully with them. However unrealistic this goal is, why is it not laudable to at least want that as a preference even if it is unlikely? If we can get them to stop, maybe prosecute the guilty, and then work to establish human rights in the region why would you NOT want to live at peace with them?
Because it's completely impossible. They don't want peace. They're a doomsday cult; their goal is to either establish a Caliphate (which means control and domination by them), or to bring about the end of the world as prophesied in the Quran. Peace is the last thing they want, unless perhaps you'd like to just voluntarily give them control over everything and just do whatever they want.
Your statement can only be taken to conclude that you want continued conflict with them.
You have two choices: either do whatever you can to eradicate them, OR pursue a strict policy of containment. There can be no peace with a group like that (unless you consider containment and isolation "peace").
If that is what your intent is then you're an idiot.
If you think you can have peaceful relations with ISIS, you're a complete moron.
There is no way to "kill them all" in a realistic manner.
Sure there is: you flatten all their cities with fuel-air bombs. Of course, no one wants to do that because it's genocide, so we're stuck with the current state of affairs. However, if ISIS goes too far, I do think that's *exactly* what's going to happen. My money's on Russia: they're going to piss off Russia somehow in a big way, and Russia is simply going to drop MOABs on them, civilian casualties be damned. What happens after that I really don't know. People like you say it'll drive recruitment, but it's pretty hard to recruit people when your entire organization has been obliterated, so at best it could end up creating a new version of ISIS, which could be sorta like how attacking Al Qaeda, plus the power vacuum in Iraq, ended up spawning ISIS.
So, yes, we want to live peacefully with these people so long as they stop their current behavior
They're not going to stop. That's the problem. That's like asking all Americans to willingly join Wahhabist Islam. You're dealing with a suicidal death cult that's reached a very large scale, and you're not going to convince them to abandon their ideology.
If a real "fountain of youth" drug were developed, unless it were sold fairly cheaply (or at least at a reasonable cost), it would probably be copied. The only reason we have a limited supply right now of various drugs is because of patent law. That doesn't keep pharma companies in places like India from manufacturing their own, they just ignore US IP laws. And we don't get that stuff over here because it isn't lucrative to import some, say, anti-AIDS drug and sell it on the black market here. There's lots of drugs which *are* lucrative to import, and the authorities are mostly helpless in preventing that, which is why the Mexican cartels are so profitable.
So what we'd see is a pairing between offshore pharma companies and established criminal cartels.
Firstly, race should be off topic for this web site.
No, it shouldn't, because the site's owners don't want it that way.
Absolutely **everything** is on-topic for this web site. Anything. Try posting a message about anything at all, no matter how offensive. It will not be deleted, it can only be moderated down. Now, try posting that same message over and over, **hundreds** or even **thousands** of times in the same article. Again, nothing will be done to stop this spam. APK has been spamming the hell out of this site, with an obvious neurological disorder, but of course nothing is done about it. There's some other racist here that keeps posting things about n******s in every single topic.
Basically, this all shows what happens when you have too much democratization. It only takes a few loonies to ruin something, especially when they have the power of automated tools (computers) which can greatly amplify their insane writings by repeatedly posting them over and over. Pretty soon, everyone else gets sick of it and goes somewhere else where there's more moderation.
There are lots of things like this, where the UI has slowly regressed and,
It's like this all across the industry: pretty much all UIs have regressed in recent years.
First, call them out for what they are. Evil.
They're not evil. They think they're doing the right thing. Their religion says so.
Then, kill or imprison them to at least stop their evil actions.
They have their own de-facto country now, and an army, so imprisoning them isn't that easy.
Finally, call out their beliefs that they use to justify their evil actions.
You can "call them out" all you want, but the people in that region agree with those beliefs. It's all part-and-parcel of their religion. And all the people saying "Islam doesn't condone violence" are just like Christians saying that "Christianity doesn't include speaking in tongues", when there are significant sects which believe exactly that, or saying "Christians don't believe God loves rich people more" when again there's significant sects that believe exactly that (see Prosperity Doctrine). Just because *your* sect of a religion doesn't believe something doesn't mean your beliefs represent the entire religion.
Pretending they should be understood as people who 'think they are working for a good cause' is dangerous.
It's not pretending, it's real. These people DO think they're working for a good cause. Their religion and their scriptures say they are. This is the whole problem with religion, especially with extremely barbaric ones whose holy books openly advocate this stuff. You can't use advanced Western ethics to argue against it, because religion requires blind adherence to doctrine.
As a human race, one thing we have all mostly agree upon is that slavery is wrong, rape is wrong, cruel and unusual punishment is wrong and using violence to expand your territory is wrong to name a few things that the general world has rejected.
No, this is all incorrect. *You* may think all these things are wrong, but not that long ago plenty of people here in the West thought they were just fine. And there's still lots of people in the world who think some of these things (if not all of them) are just fine and dandy.
Here in the US, a large portion of the population thought slavery was just fine as recently as 150 years ago. Even today, there's still lots of Americans who think slavery is just fine: you can see them flying Confederate flags on their pickups.
A large fraction of men think rape is fine, depending on circumstances. Something like 1/4 of all women in the US are raped or sexually assaulted at some point. This isn't being done by the same small group of men. And just look at how many Muslim men think it's OK to rape women if they dress too "provocatively". That mindset isn't limited to Muslims though; they're just more likely to be forthcoming with that opinion; you can find plenty of American men saying the same thing on web forums. I'd be surprised if a large fraction of the Slashdot crowd didn't believe in this; this place is chock full of ultra-conservative misogynists.
Most humans think using violence to expand territory is fine. Russia just did it within the last year, and Putin has wide popular support. China is doing the same even now. The US was doing it 100+ years ago. Back in the Middle Ages, the Europeans were constantly doing this.
Most humans think cruel and unusual punishment is fine. The Europeans in the Middle Ages burned people at the stake constantly, along with many other cruel punishments. Even today, here in the US we keep people in prison for years and decades; a few hundred years ago, *that* was considered cruel and unusual, which is why they generally didn't have any prisons (only jails, for people awaiting trial). Keeping someone in prison, esp. in solitary confinement, usually winds up giving them mental problems or turning them insane. Somehow back in the Colonial days when they branded people or tossed fruit at them in the stockades, they recognized this and so didn't have any prisons, only swift punishments.
At least when the USA, etc.. has done an invasion, they present justification to the rest of the world.
I'm sure ISIS has their own justification too. It's basically just Sharia Law and "the Quran says so", but that's good enough for the people in that part of the world. That's the kind of mentality people from there have. It's not very different from the mentality that people had in the Middle Ages when people were burned at the stake for believing in the "wrong" kind of Christianity.
If the mob rule vilifies another group and calling them evil is the only acceptable answer this just foments more conflict
How is someone *not* evil when they regularly saw off peoples' heads?
Any one who is advocating peace IMO should not be ridiculed and shamed.
You want to try to live peacefully with a group that burns people at the stake and beheads them regularly? If you want to advocate strict separatism and quarantining because getting involved in that region is unlikely to work out well, that's a reasonable-sounding position, but saying "let's make peace" with people this barbaric is just dumb.
Is anyone trying to follow the money? Who is supplying and training these folks? Who is providing them with documentation? The USA has supposedly been engaging them for over a year, and yet there's been little progress to show for it. Russia steps in and over a weekend the organization is reportedly in chaos and falling apart. WTF?!
Now this does raise a good point, though I have to call for "citation needed" on the bit about ISIS being "in chaos and falling apart"; I haven't read that at all. All Russia's done is dropped some bombs, and even then it looks like they bombed the wrong guys, they bombed some other anti-Assad groups, not ISIS (since their only real concern is propping up Assad). The French probably did more with their small bombing of Raqa in the last day or two. But that again makes me wonder: if we knew where these training camps and recruitment centers were, why weren't they bombed long ago? Honestly this whole thing kinda stinks: this enemy has no aircraft, no real AAA that I've heard of, just a bunch of Toyota trucks and AK47s and probably some other infantry equipment. How hard can it be to weaken them to the point where the Kurds can completely eliminate them on the ground?
It still has the shitty Metro UI. As long as it has that, it will be completely unusable.
The components are all on the outside of the boards, so that doesn't really matter unless something happens to actually damage the PCB. And if that happens, it's generally not worth it to try to salvage the PCB anyway.
So the Quebecoi is worried about the culture being ruined by the Italians??? Or the Ethiopians (I'm sure their restaurants have the names of their dishes in Ethiopian)?
As English speaker you don't see any problem with this because everything else is in English. What harm could do a little menu in Italian when it is the Italian peoples that are forced to learn English for work.
If they emigrate to the US or UK, then of course they need to learn English for work. Why should it be any different?
If they're living in Italy, then no, they don't need to learn English to work. I'm quite sure Italians still generally speak Italian in Italy, just like French generally speak French in France.
None of these foreign culture threaten your English one. You opinion about Italian restaurant will change if you were forced to learn Italian for work or go on you dailies tasks. Do you see how stupid your position is?
No, I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
If I move to Italy, then I would expect to need to learn Italian to get along. "When in Rome..."
A sovereign state can decide what is the language of the land. If you want to do business there, you respect the law. Or you can go elsewhere.
Sure, and the rest of us have the right to laugh at your sovereign state's idiotic laws.
I'm sure that Italian restaurants in Germany have menus with the names of their dishes in Italian too. Only a really idiotic place would require ethnic restaurants to translate the very names of their dishes into the local language.
Also the experience of dinning in a ethnic restaurant is clean and good food, not having no idea of what you eating because you only pretending to understand what you ordered.
Are you so sheltered you've never been to an ethnic restaurant? They pretty much all have English descriptions of the dishes (in the US).
And WTF is "dinning"?
No company can force another company to spend money. They can try really hard, but the fact is, "I bought and own this, and I will use it till it doesn't work anymore" is a common mindset.
The corollary to that is that no customer can force a vendor to support an old product forever. They can try really hard, but the fact is, supporting obsolete stuff just isn't worth it most of the time. And they're definitely not going to do it for free.
They can still develop new OS's there is nothing stopping that, but there is no reason for an EOL, they should just charge for support.
How many customers are willing to pay $10 million per year per computer for support?
Continuing to support old OSes (which are highly complex products remember) isn't a trivial effort. At some point, the amount of money customers are willing to pay for continued support just isn't enough to pay for the extra organizational overhead needed to do that. Don't forget that there's a lot of institutional memory in stuff like this: long-time employees have all the requisite knowledge, and a lot of it doesn't get written down. You can't just hire a bunch of new employees and put them to work supporting some 25-year-old software product; they're going to be lost. And the old-timers are going to age out or go find new jobs, and where are you going to find fresh new employees who want to have on their resume, "supported Windows 3.1 for 3 years"? No one really wants that job.
More than a few decades ago, pink was considered a manly color.
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Only if they dislike Episodes 4-6 (and especially #5).
Disliking Episodes 1-3 is the sign of a sane mind and good taste.
Well that's what happens when Lucas writes a script and won't let anyone critique it.
No, everything is not in English, even here in the US. Go into any good Italian restaurant, and the menu will be filled with Italian terms and writing. Any intelligent diner is educated and smart enough to be able to pronounce these terms; it's not like you need to learn the whole language. Same for any Greek restaurant: all the food names are in Greek, like galactoboureko. At some restaurants, you'll even see stuff in Greek letters, though of course they also print the Latinized versions. Again, same for French restaurants: all the dishes have French names. Americans probably have more trouble pronouncing those than the Italian or Greek dishes, but that's ok, we still muddle our way through, and don't demand that the menus be made in all-English. Again, Mexican restaurants: the menus are in Spanish. Not even the Trump supporters complain about this; they know perfectly well what a taco or a burrito is, and don't need the name translated into some made-up English name.
Part of the experience of dining in a good ethnic restaurant is (hopefully) getting a relatively "authentic" dining experience, which includes the food as well as the names on the menu. If the Quebec government actually expects Greek, Russian, Ethiopian, or Italian restaurants to make up French names for foods that are native to those place, that just defies all reason.
The problem is that that approach you describe with VHDL doesn't actually work. The Army has all kinds of problems sourcing obsolete parts these days. If what you described actually worked, they'd just get someone to fab the chips for them.. But they don't, they source them from all kinds of weird little suppliers of NOS components, and frequently end up getting counterfeit stuff from China.
Moreover, there's a lot more to a chip design than the HDL code. You can't just give some foundry some HDL code and have them spit out an Intel processor.
If you want continuous support for electronics like this, you have to keep up with what's going on in the industry, and continuously upgrade your designs to use modern parts. There's no other way to do it, unless you have a really simple design that can be built with discrete circuits and doesn't need any ASICs. You could do much of your designs in Verilog and make your hardware FPGA-based, and then just upgrade to newer FPGAs over time, since porting Verilog code to newer FPGAs isn't that hard, but it's still not a simple solution requiring absolutely no redesign. There's just no such thing.
I think we need *more* APK spam. As it is, there's a lot of it and it's a big nuisance, but no one's doing anything to fix the problem.
We need to have so much APK spam that the site becomes completely unusable. That's the only way the idiotic management around here is finally going to step up and do something about the problem.
A lot of times, you have to completely burn something down before you can rebuild something better.
They could probably hold their company indefinitely just running windows XP,7 or 8
Corporations have to constantly grow, or they're considered "dying". MS isn't going to grow if they can't get customers to keep shelling out $$$ for new versions of the old software they're already using.